Preliminary Program – April 5th 2018

Music Emotion Capture: sonifying emotions in EEG data
George Langroudi, Anna Jordanous and Ling Li
University of Kent, UK

Associating Colours with Emotion Detection in Social Media Tweets
Robert Harvey, Andrew Muncey and Neil Vaughan
University of Chester, UK

The lexicon of feeling offended
Francesca D’Errico and Isabella Poggi
University of Roma Tre, Italy

12:30‑13:30

Lunch

13:30‑14:30

Invited talkTwits, Twats and Twaddle. Analysis of hate speech towards politicians in the GATE social media toolkit. Diana Maynard University of Sheffield, UKAbstract: Recent events have shown that poltical outcomes such as elections can be significantly influenced by social media. Tools for collecting, monitoring and interpreting the discussions on social media, as well as better understanding of the ways in which different messages should be portrayed for maximum impact, are thus in high demand. In this talk, I will introduce the GATE social media toolkit, which provides the whole lifecycle of social media analysis, from twitter collection to analysis and finally indexing, querying and visualisation of results. I will focus particularly on a case study involving detection of hate speech against UK politicians on Twitter, demonstrating how the core sentiment analysis tools were adapted for the task, and how the toolkit was used to understand the nature of abusive comments, as well as providing insights into how the abuse has changed over the last few years.

14:30‑14:40

10′ break

14:40‑15:00

Technical session

An experiment with an off-the-shelf tool to identify emotions in students’ self-reported accounts
Lubna Alharbi, Floriana Grasso and Phil Jimmieson
University of Liverpool, UK

15:00‑15:30

Tea break

15:30‑15:50

Technical session

Prosocial words in social media discussions on hosting immigrants. Insights for psychological and computational field
Francesca D’Errico, Marinella Paciello and Matteo Amadei
University of Roma Tre, Italy; Uninettuno, Italy

15:50‑16:50

Invited talkThe role of a virtual body in modeling emotions for Social Media and Online Interaction: The BodyPass project Pietro Cipresso University of Milan ‘Sacro Cuore’, Italy